When Texas Christian University student Dainty Prescott lands an unpaid internship with WBFD-TV, the station manager, Gordon Pfeiffer, tells her to spy on his wife, Paislee. To Dainty's dismay, Paislee turns out to be having an affair with Dainty's law school boyfriend and date for the Rubanbleu's debutante ball, Strayer Drexel Truett III. Next, a sorority sister asks the pampered princess to investigate her mom's very suspicious fiancé, and ditzy...

Twenty-three-year-old Dainty Prescott, indulged society girl, TCU graduate, WBFD-TV intern and last year's debutante, finally has everything she desires - until an early morning phone call from an international operator sends her life spiraling out of control. Her younger sister Teensy, who chartered a plane for Mexico with a friend after last night's Rubanbleu ball, is in critical condition in a Ciudad Juárez hospital - and her friend is missing....